Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Majestic--"Oh Kay!" --8.10 o'clock.--Not the "Oh, Kay!" we heard so much about...
...hounds with which Theodosia's uncle had once hunted across the wide fields. At last, drugged with horror, Theodosia goes into the back country to teach school. Hearing the small voices of children and the strong sounds of secure life, she begins to recover her poise. "She heard the noises of the night, the tree-frogs and crickets, the frogs at the wet place beyond the milk house. . .-. The leaves of the poplar tree lifted and turned swaying outward and all quivered together, holding the night coolness. . . ." The Significance. Essentially Author Roberts writes with the talent of a poet...
...Bach program was the announcement for Harold Samuel's Manhattan recital† last week. It was a rainy night but the hall was filled. Some had heard him in 1924 when he came from England to play at Elizabeth Shurtliff Coolidge's Berkshire Festival; some had attended his six Bach recitals last year, given on six consecutive days, had heard people so far forget themselves as to cheer him-and Bach. Some went to hear him for the first time-a man who, according to Critic Lawrence Gilman, has made All-Bach recitals as popular in the British...
Some 15 years ago a small Italian, Gallo his last name and Fortune his first, took a ragged opera company foundering on the Pacific Coast, called it his own. Few had heard the name Gallo, fewer still had faith in his venture. But the San Carlo Company prospered, played a week here, three nights there in U. S. cities that had no opera, made a name for the impresario who could give popular-priced performances and succeed. Last week the San Carlo Company began a two-weeks' engagement in Manhattan, not in the old Century Theatre that had been...
Charles Eliot Norton's unique place in the affections of Harvard men was indicated by Le Baron R. Briggs '75, dean of the College during the latter part of Norton's professorship, when he said recently that wherever Harvard men gathered 20 years ago two names were most often heard, those of N. S. Shaler '62, former professor of geology, and of Professor Norton...